Yu Le hurriedly recounted all the news she had just heard.
Her eyes were red with anxiety.
"Night King would never let Miss down, but the news is said to have come from the palace. Today, that Qin Linglong is staying in the palace! They also said that Night King and Qin Linglong have already become lovers. This, this... I can't believe it at all."
A Cha also looked anxious. "Miss, I don't know if this news is true or false, but it has already spread throughout the General's manor."
After Yun Shu listened to the two of them explain the whole story, she lowered her eyes.
Seeing Yun Shu's silence, they thought she was anxious or angry.
At that moment, their hearts were also in a turmoil.
If the rumors were true, then Night King had truly let Miss down!
Just as the two of them were anxiously trying to find a way to confirm the truth of this matter, Yun Shu said, "Go and attend to your duties. There's no need to pay too much attention to this matter."
Because Yun Shu's tone was too calm, she seemed not to be in a hurry at all.
Yu Le and A Cha were a little stunned.
Why did Miss seem completely unconcerned?
Seeing that they were both dazed, Yun Shu smiled and said, "Whether the news is true or false will be known soon. There's no need to be agitated by others' words."
She had not witnessed the scene with her own eyes, so there was no need to disrupt her own composure.
"Miss is right, we were the ones who lost our composure."
The two spoke almost in unison.
It was only then they realized, how could things that happened in the palace have spread so quickly to the General's manor? As their minds calmed down, the cause and effect emerged: someone deliberately wanted the protagonist to know this!
They must have wanted to see Miss jealous, and ideally make some clumsy mistake in her haste.
Seeing the surprise and dawning realization on their faces, Yun Shu continued, "I have appeared openly in the capital of the Western Xia Kingdom. Many people cannot stand to see me at peace, so they will surely resort to some messy little tricks to disgust me."
However, a cold glint flashed in her beautiful eyes.
Today's events were definitely not baseless.
At this moment, there was bound to be turmoil in the palace.
...
As Yun Shu had expected, there was indeed turmoil in the palace at this moment.
For things that others could not accomplish, with Prince Jin, everything seemed to become natural.
A delicate beauty was sent over, one that he himself had fancied at a palace banquet. Everyone expected that Prince Jin would be very happy today.
That Qin Linglong clearly intended to do her best to please him.
But then!
The people in the palace were dumbfounded.
Outside the Imperial Study, a crowd of palace servants trembled with fear.
They wished their heads could be stuck to the ground to steady their fear.
This was because inside the Imperial Study, the Emperor was spewing with rage.
Ceramics shattered on the ground one after another.
The same thought went through Qin Linglong's mind as she knelt before the Emperor.
Her face was frighteningly pale, and she knelt on the ground, swaying as if she might collapse at any moment.
But she dared not fall in front of the Emperor.
The immense blow left her helpless in the face of the situation.
Some of the broken porcelain shards even fell on her, cutting her hands, but she dared not move, nor could she even look at the Emperor.
Perhaps the only one who was not afraid was Zhan Tianye, who stood by the side as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Qin Linglong glanced at Zhan Tianye, and her heart felt as if it were being slowly cut by a knife.
He hated her so much!
He was more heartless than she had imagined, pushing her away so easily, and sending her here, even proposing an absurd suggestion that she should become the Emperor's consort.
After all, sending one was sending, and sending two was also sending.
Although she didn't understand what "sending two was also sending" meant, she clearly understood that because he didn't care, he could look down on her so much!
After the Emperor threw a pile of porcelain, some of the fire in his chest subsided.
However, anger still flickered in his eyes.
This son of his was truly intractable!
He could push away a woman sent to his bed, and even remain calm after being exposed to a potent aphrodisiac. He was so calm and restrained with a woman he had chosen himself that if he didn't know Zhan Tianye had a son with Yun Shu, he would suspect that this son he had painstakingly found back was not a man!
Otherwise, how many men in this world could be a "gentleman of leisure" like Liu Xiahui?
As an emperor, even with many consorts in his harem, he still desired beautiful women from the populace and wished to bring them back to the palace.
This alone made the Emperor wonder if something had gone wrong in the process.
Was the Zhan Tianye before him not his son?
But this thought lasted only for a moment.
"You chose her, and you still want to send her to Me?" the Emperor questioned through gritted teeth.
He was willing to take in Li Meng'er, but this Qin... Qin what was her name? He had never even thought of her.
Zhan Tianye remained indifferent, his words as heartless as ever. "She just broke off her engagement, so she is free to marry."
Qin Linglong's vision swam as she heard this. Her gaze turned towards Zhan Tianye as if accusing him, pitiful and helpless. Did he not consider how deeply these words would sting her?
How cruel were they?
Broke off her engagement?
Free to marry?
And then he pushed her to the Emperor?
To make her the Emperor's woman?
She clenched her hands tightly, hoping her helplessness might stir a shred of compassion in the man before her.
However.
Her wishful thinking was in vain.
He didn't even spare her a sideways glance.
The Emperor, perhaps due to his earlier rage, now felt a flicker of admiration upon witnessing Zhan Tianye's heartlessness.
Ordinary women could not use their beauty to cause trouble and disrupt the future grand plan of unifying the world for the Western Xia Kingdom.
"Take her away," the Emperor's anger completely subsided, and his tone was calm.
Zhan Tianye didn't even lift his eyelids, his indifference still pushing people away. "She was not summoned to the palace by this subject."
Whoever summoned her should deal with the aftermath.
The veins on the Emperor's forehead twitched. "Are you sure you don't need her?"
The aphrodisiac perfume, once it entered the body, could easily cause one to lose all reason. If it were not released, it would be extremely harmful to the body. Thinking of this, he looked at his son with even greater admiration. From the beginning until now, he had not shown the slightest abnormality.
This required an absolutely powerful self-control to restrain oneself.
Otherwise, one would surely lose all reason.
"No need," Zhan Tianye answered curtly.
But Qin Linglong felt darkness descending. She couldn't afford to care about anything else and humbly pleaded with Zhan Tianye, "Your Highness Prince Jin, this humble subject does not know what she did wrong. As long as Your Highness informs me, this humble subject will change everything and will absolutely not incur Your Highness's displeasure."
"If this humble subject is sent out of the palace like this, then I will have no face to see anyone."
Others might say such words to elicit pity, but she truly meant them.